EXCERPT:
JORDAN: “Let me read a few other things here and let me ask you why you did some of these things. When you filed a false tax return in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, was all that out of blind loyalty to the president?”
COHEN: “No, it was not.”
JORDAN: “When you failed to report $4 million in income to the Internal Revenue Service, did you do that to protect Donald Trump?”
COHEN: “No, I did not.”
JORDAN: “And when you failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes -- I got constituents that don’t make that in a lifetime, when you failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes to the U.S. Treasury, was that out of some blind loyalty to the president of the United States?”
COHEN: “It was not. But the number was $1.38 million and change, and I have paid that money back to the IRS at this time.”
JORDAN: “I think the -- I think the American people appreciate that 1.3 —“ [crosstalk]
COHEN: “And I would also just like to say it was over a course of five years. Approximately $260,000 a year."
JORDAN: "Yeah, that’s what I said, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 -- that’s five years.”
COHEN: “Yes.”
JORDAN: “Got it. When you made false statements to financial institutions concerning a home equity line of credit, taxi medallions on your Park Avenue apartment in 2013, 2014 and 2015, and you pled guilty to making those false statements to those banks, was that all done to protect the president?”
COHEN: “No, it was not.”